u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld appeared to support that premise tuesday, saying a possible reason that iraqi chemical and biological weapons have not been found was that saddam's government had destroyed them before the conflict.
link here.. certainly interesting implications, if true.. so, what, we invade other countries even if they do follow all un resolutions, but fail to file the proper paperwork?.
but, the war's not about oil, though, right?
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appeared to support that premise Tuesday, saying a possible reason that Iraqi chemical and biological weapons have not been found was that Saddam's government had destroyed them before the conflict.
Link here.
Certainly interesting implications, if true.
So, what, we invade other countries even if they DO follow all UN resolutions, but fail to file the proper paperwork?
But, the war's not about oil, though, right?
http://www.emode.com/emode/tests/emotional_age3.jsp.
downside, it says i am too uptight!
what's your emotional age?.
Yeah, weird, it feels like it's been months since I posted here. Checked my history to see how long it's been - HARDLY OVER A MONTH!
That's just unbelievable.
Times flies on the intarw3b.
Anyway, in that time, had an awful business trip to LA, finished my last semester of school (seems I'll be graduating college this summer - yay!), and generally kept myself insanely busy.
http://www.emode.com/emode/tests/emotional_age3.jsp.
downside, it says i am too uptight!
what's your emotional age?.
So teenager it isn't even funny!
And Ima gonna STAY that way, thank you very much.
i believe that it was the history channel that i was watching this weekend....it was about egypt--land of the gods.
in it is talked about the ancient gods of egypt and the elaborate egyptian temples.
then, it spoke of how when the israelites left egypt how they at first had their movable tabernacle and then their temples and how the set-up of them with the courtyards and the holy and most holy places were based upon the pharoahic worship and temples of the egyptians.
An interesting article on this topic:
Very interesting read, essentially presenting compelling evidence that the 'Hebrews' were an entirely artificial grouping of several semitic tribes who later re-wrote their entire history.
these stories qualify as the "strange but true" articles of the day.... i am not posting this to fan flames but found the two stories interesting and both raised an eyebrow but in different ways.... a gift worth a foot in the mouth .
this is one gift the city of detroit may never be able to live down.
back in 1980, when times were much different than they are now and the u.s. was on a completely different footing with a certain despotic middle eastern leader, saddam hussein was given the key to the motor city.
Plus, it's against regulations. US servicepeople cannot canoodle with each other. That's what civilians (and locals!...except...perhaps not in this war - *yikes*) are for.
a journalist's account of the killing of a car full of iraqi civilians by us soldiers differs widely from the official military version, says brian whitaker .
tuesday april 1, 2003 .
the invasion forces suffered another self-inflicted disaster in the battle for hearts and minds yesterday when soldiers from the us 3rd infantry division shot dead iraqi seven women and children.
"We had hope," he said. "But then you Americans came to bring us democracy and our hope ended."
Lamea is nine months pregnant.
"It would be better not to have the baby," she said.
"Our lives are over."
Ah, but at least we got the oil wells, so it wasn't so bad, after all!
the trip begins in kansas and ends in florida.
it's all going down in june.
i'm really anxious and scared because i've never done anything like this before.
Well, I WAS going to offer advice, until I found out you were planning felininicide. Now, I'm not so sure.....
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Anyway, BOOKS ON TAPE! Seriously, MUCH easier to keep you awake than music, because you actually have to pay attention. That said, make sure it's a compelling story. When my wife and I have travelled up and down the east coast a few times (no moves yet - we'll be doing one from Ohio -> Oregon hopefully soon enough, though).
Personally, I think the Lord of the Rings series is a fantastic book series. Very compelling, especially if you haven't read them before (hell, even if you have - the only unabridged version out has an INREDIBLE narrator - he gives each character a distinct and interesting voice, sings the songs, etc.) In any case, that series is...hmmmm....45 hours long?
That should last the trip.
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sars, the new deadly virus that seems to be spreading quickly round the world, is very worrying but is not getting much attention i think because of the war.. scientists have been saying for some times that we are overdue for a pandemic of spanish flu proportions and this could be it !.
in just a few days / weeks it seems to have reached most major countries, infected thousands and killed more people than the iraqi's have.. should we be concerned?
Their was no global awareness of ANYTHING at the time either of those plagues hit. News was 'fresh' if it was weeks old in most cases.
In any case, the flu is still a very terrible thing to get in most of the world today - it's fatality rate is quite high (like, 15%). Think how crappy you, a normal, healthy, adult feel when you get it. Now imagine you are sickly, malnourished, and have no access to any medicine BEFORE you get it. See the problem?
How diseases are treated in the 1st world and 3rd world are completely different. I should have revised my above statement - in a first-world country, it takes a whopper of a virus to take a normal, healthy, adult down. This isn't it.
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sars, the new deadly virus that seems to be spreading quickly round the world, is very worrying but is not getting much attention i think because of the war.. scientists have been saying for some times that we are overdue for a pandemic of spanish flu proportions and this could be it !.
in just a few days / weeks it seems to have reached most major countries, infected thousands and killed more people than the iraqi's have.. should we be concerned?
See, this is what I mean!
Media hype and hysteria, and the next thing you know it's the black plague.
1) It's NOT as contagious as the 'common flu'
2) Its RECOVERY RATE (that means, the number of people who get it, it runs its course, and get better vs the number of people who get it, it runs it course, and die) is HIGHER that the 'common flu'
It's well known that every year a new strain of the flu virus makes its way around the world, hundreds die, almost everyone gets it, and the world moves on. (Course, granted, a year or two ago the media DID manage to get everyone in a hysteria about the common flu, too, and everyone was running of getting vaccinated).
Unless you are very young, or very old, or in poor health, it takes a whopper of a virus to take a human down. (Like, say, AIDS) This isn't it. It'll be widespread, it'll kill a lot of the elderly, sick, and young, and it'll go away. Just like every other virus.
